Wire buckle.



W. A. SGHLBIOHER. WIRE BUCKLE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNEM, 1906.

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PATENTED APR. 16, 1907.

surface of the bar 4 being UNITED STATEiPATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM A. SCHLEICHER, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOE TO THE EBER HARD MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO,,A CORPORA- TION OF OHIO.

WIRE BUCKLE.

Application filed June 14,1906. el'iltl N0= 321.627.

The operation of making the buckle is an Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. SoHLEI- extremely simple one, and the buckle thus CHER, of Cleveland, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, made is strong and effective. have invented a new and useful Improve- What I claim is ment in Wire Buckles, of which the following 1. A buckle having its frame composed of is a full, clear, and exact description, refera single piece of wire'bent to form a tongueence being had to the accompanying draw- 1 loop and a tuckloop, with a straight inings, forming part of this specification, in termediate transverse bar common to both whichloops and forming a pin or pintle for the Figure 1. is a top plan view of a buckle emtongue, said intermediate bar being formed bodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a bottom in part by an intermediate portion of the plan view oi the same, and Fig. 3 is a section wire and in part by the free end portions of on the line III III of Fig. 1. the Wire which are brought into the same ver- My invention has relation to buckles, and Y tical plane with the said intermediate portion is designed to provide a strong and efficient and closed vertically against the same; subbuckle which can be made out of wire and stantially as described. shaped andformed with very little expense. 2. A buckle having its frame composed of In carrying out my invention I take a sina single integral piece of wire bent to form a gle piece of wire of the proper size and bend tuck-loop and a tongue-loop, with a transit to form the tuck-loop 2 and the tongueverse bar intermediate of the two loops, said loop 3. The intermediate portion of the bar having a flattened surface against which wire forms the transverse connecting-bar 4 the free inwardly-turned end portions of the between the two loops 2 and 3, which bar Wire are pressed and secured; substantially forms the pintle for the tongue 5, the under as described.

preferably flat- In testimony whereof I have hereunto set tened off somewhat and the transverselymy hand. bent free end portions 6 of the wire being carried underneath the same and pressed against it. The frame formed by the wire is then tinned, the end portions 6 are soldered to the bar l, and the tongue 5 is applied.

To all whom it may concern.-

WILLIAM A. SCHLEICHER.

Witnesses:

JOHN H. BAEHR, EMIL W. JAITE. 

